GEOG-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Economy, Social Inequality, Human Geography
24 Sep 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Leo Ellis
Physical Geography
Geog-120
The Changing of Global Context:
Geography of the Pre-Modern World:
1. Agriculture and Domestication
2. Early Empires
3. Colonization and the Capitalist Economy
*A long term, big picture looks at changing geographies over time emphasize the evolving
interdependence among places and regions.
● Understanding the Current Global Contest: Important trend that human geography can
help us to understand:
o Globalization
o Urbanization
o Human-induced environmental change
o Social inequality
● Agriculture and Domestication:
o Replaces hunting and gathering as the basis of subsistence
● 1st Agricultural Revolution (10,000 – 5,000 BC):
o The domestication of plants and animals
o Planned cultivation of seed crops
o Gave rise to a sedentary (doesn’t move) human civilization (vs. nomadic) and
permanent dwellings
o Subsistence Farming: Self-sufficient farming where producing food is meant for
local consumption as opposed to trade.
o Minisystem: A reciprocal social economy in which each individual specializes in
particular tasks and shares any access with others
Urbanization:
● Centres of:
o Administration and tax collection
o Military Defense
o Transportation
o Religion
● Infrastructure:
o Paved streets
o Piped water
o Sewage systems
● Cultural and Technology:
o Monuments
o Public buildings
o Baths
o Aqueducts
Colonialism and the Capitalist Economy:
Document Summary
Geography of the pre-modern world: agriculture and domestication, early empires, colonization and the capitalist economy. *a long term, big picture looks at changing geographies over time emphasize the evolving interdependence among places and regions. Understanding the current global contest: important trend that human geography can help us to understand: globalization, urbanization, human-induced environmental change, social inequality. Agriculture and domestication: replaces hunting and gathering as the basis of subsistence. Centres of: administration and tax collection, military defense, transportation, religion. Infrastructure: paved streets, piped water, sewage systems. Cultural and technology: monuments, public buildings, baths, aqueducts. Colonialism: the establishment and maintenance of political and legal domination by a state over a separate . Colonization: the physical settlement of people from in the new territory form the colonizing territory. Colonial powers: portugal, spain, netherlands, britain, france. Colonization played a significant role in the development and spread of capitalism.
